Many asked me why it was so important to me to
create bus ads for a pro-choice organization. Simply put, if the abortion
debate must still be fought, it should be through accurate information, not
through access. Less clinics performing the procedure does not lead to less
abortion, but simply to less safe abortions.

I am no stranger to how vicious online
commenters can be. Nastiness is inherent to large platform that where power can
be gained without visible consequences to anonymous people. I have also never
had an email that has shaken me to my core and I’ve received a lot of them:
from simplistic remarks about me being too ugly / too pretty / too smart / too
dumb for this to some truly perverse ones suggesting I take out actions of
violence on myself. They come randomly; yes, in flurries when I’ve made a
recent media appearance but at any time doing any thing I will suddenly get a
capslock and mistake laden not-quite-threat reminding me that there are people
out there who I will give maybe a second but never a third thought to who stew all
over my words.

Great.

So it’s with this context, this context of
knowing how scary speaking up can be, that I ask you to do three things:

Pay attention to what is happening to The
Morgentaler Clinic.

Speak up about it.

Consider the appropriate action when the time
is right.

Typed out, these are not
revolutionary actions. Many people will ask you to do the same to save this,
prevent this, etc. Still, I think it needs to be said so that Canadians do not
sink back into a state of passive pro-choice. I appreciate that the bus ads
that South House worked so hard on were considered a rallying call, but the
thing about rallies is they happen over and over again. This is another one.

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In the light of conversation, I think it's healthy to hear from people with a different view than our own :) If our ideas are never challenged, how can we know what we truly stand for? I encourage you to read this short article my lovely lady